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J'uiigermannia Kiinzeana, Hubn. Hep. Germ. 

 p.'ii5 ; Tayl. Hook. Journ. 1845, 278; Dum. 

 Hep. Eur. 69 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 237, 

 238. Jungcrmannia plicata, Hartm. Fl. Scan. 

 n., p. 90 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 394. 



On sub-alpine moors. 



Growing in dense olive-brown patches. Stems 

 about I inch long, erect, or ascending, simple or 

 dichotomous, attached from the under side by hair- 

 like radicles ; leaves almost vertical, crossing the 

 stem, spreading, roundish, quite entire, all pointing 

 upwards, obtuse, complicate, bifid with a narrow 

 sinus, some near the top trifid, the laciniee obtuse, 

 incurved, reticulate with large areolae ; stipules 

 bipartite, rather rigid, spreading, entire, of the 

 same texture as the leaves ; lacinise lanceolate, 

 divergent, with a few spinous teeth at the base, 

 sometimes one or two above the base. Lateral 

 pericha^tial leaves quadrifid. Perianth convex 

 above, deeply channelled below, peduncle four 

 times as long as the perianth. Capsule oblong- 

 ovate. —{Plate 4, fig. 59.) 



Jungermannia Muelleri, Nces. 



Stem ascending, rather branched ; leaves 

 imbricate, plane, obliquely ovate, emarginate, 

 bidentate ; laciniae straight, acute ; perichaetial 

 leaves ciliately toothed ; stipules two or tri fid, 

 rather ciliate at the base; perianth cylindrical, 

 mouth rostrate. 



